A Guide to Leading Your Family in Discipleship
We created a Family Weekly Discipleship Guide for the six Sundays leading up to Easter, beginning on March 9, 2025 (the first Sunday in Lent). These guides are designed to be tools to help your family grow in intimacy with Jesus during this season by implementing (or continuing) a weekly rhythm of family discipleship. Each weekly guide aligns with at least one of the Scriptures covered in To Seek and To Save and provides a summary with prepared age specific questions based on the Scripture. Your role is not to have all the answers, but to humbly point your family to Jesus. As you go through the Scriptures together, allow the lessons from Jesus’ journey to the Cross to shape your own heart as well. Trust the Holy Spirit to work through His Word and your efforts to draw your family closer to Christ.
Delivery: Each Sunday, we will have enough of these family discipleship guides printed out for you to take two per family at our local campuses. We also have them available below.
Weekly Family Discipleship Guides
For Those Just Getting Started
1. Read the passages beforehand.
Reflect on Jesus’ teachings and interactions in each passage.
Take a few quick notes on how these lessons apply to your life and family.
2. Use additional resources.
If you need deeper understanding, read the assigned chapter in To Seek and To Save by Sinclair Ferguson.
Meditate on the Scriptures provided in the guide prior to your time together.
Pray! Ask the Lord for wisdom and insight.
Preparing for Your Weekly Family Discipleship
1. Set a Time
Begin on Sunday, March 9, and gather for the first Weekly Family Discipleship Guide.
Keep it short and engaging. This time doesn’t have to be long. It can even be done over a meal.
Communicate with your family! Let everyone know ahead of time so they can come prepared.
2. Create the Right Atmosphere
Minimize distractions (turn off devices).
If you have younger children, we have provided age-appropriate questions to help them engage. We also tried to make all parts of these guides accessible to almost all ages.
Make it fun!
3. Use the Guide as a Structure, Not a Script
You don’t have to cover every point, ask every question, or even sing the provided song.
Let the discussion flow naturally. When your family seems to focus on an idea, don’t try to rush past it.
Using the Weekly Family Discipleship Guide
1. Setting Up the Story
Use the story summaries to explain the context of Jesus’ interactions.
Encourage your family to interact, ask questions, and share what stood out to them.
Read this part aloud!
2. Read the Word
Assign different family members to read the Scripture passages aloud. This keeps everyone involved and highlights the centrality of God’s Word.
3. Discuss the Word
Use the reflection questions that fit your family’s discussion. Feel free to skip questions or adapt them as needed.
4. Sing (Optional)
We’ve provided a lyric video worship playlist on YouTube. Feel free to turn it up loud and sing together as a family!
If singing isn’t feasible, skip this part. It’s completely optional, but we invite you to try it.
5. Live Sent
This section walks through a plan to pray and live sent; intentionally building a relationship with people to engage them with the Gospel. View the Weekly Live Sent Guides.
6. Encourage Application
Challenge your family to live out the lessons during the week.
Throughout the week, revisit what you learned during family meals or casual conversations. Share how you applied the lesson or where you struggled but are asking the Lord for strength.
Final Encouragement
Leading family discipleship is about faithfulness, not perfection. Your goal is to create a rhythm of worship in your home where your family grows together in Christ. Trust God, lean on His Word, and let the Holy Spirit do the transforming work in your family’s hearts.